Tag: The Secret Life Of Us

On This Day — 15 March

15 March 1962: The Allen Brothers (Chris Bell and Peter Allen) 15 March 1967: The Seekers (Bruce Woodley, Athol Guy, Judith Durham, Keith Potger) 15 March 1975: Ernie Sigley (The Ernie Sigley Show) 15 March 1975: Ernie Sigley and Denise Drysdale (The Ernie Sigley Show) 15 March 1992: Andrew Clarke (The New Adventures Of Skippy) …

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On This Day — 9 March

9 March 1991: Julie McGregor and Simone Buchanan (Hey Dad); Penny Cook and Tony Martin (E Street) 9 March 1996: Nicky Buckley (Sale Of The Century) and Catriona Rowntree (Getaway) 9 March 2002: Martin Dingle-Wall (Home And Away), Lisa Chappell (McLeod’s Daughters), Stephen Hunt (Neighbours), Michala Banas (Always Greener), Sibylla Budd (The Secret Life Of …

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On This Day — 15 February

15 February 1962: Bill Collins (Sunnyside Up) 15 February 1964: Ken Delo (The Delo And Daly Show) 15 February 1975: Abigail (Class Of ’75) 15 February 1975: Gary Day (Homicide) 15 February 1992: Kym Wilson (A Country Practice, Video Smash Hits) 15 February 2003: Vince Colosimo and Claudia Karvan (The Secret Life Of Us) 15 …

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On This Day — 26 January

26 January 1974: Number 96 26 January 1975: Pete Smith (The Ernie Sigley Show) 26 January 1980: Zoe Bertram (The Restless Years), Michael Caton (The Sullivans), Daryl Somers, Ossie Ostrich, Jacki MacDonald (Hey Hey It’s Saturday), Don Lane and Bert Newton (The Don Lane Show). 26 January 1991: Nicole Kidman 26 January 2002: McLeod’s Daughters, …

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On This Day — 9 August

9 August 1975: Jill Forster and John Stanton (The Box) 9 August 2003: Claudia Karvan and Vince Colosimo (The Secret Life Of Us) 9 August 2008: Jodi Gordon and Paul O’Brien (Home And Away) 9 August 1968: Regional Queensland station MVQ6, Mackay, is officially opened — Seven Mackay turns 45 [2013] 9 August 1996: Peter …

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On This Day — 3 August

3 August 1968: Ed Devereaux (Skippy The Bush Kangaroo) 3 August 1974: Rod Mullinar and Brenda Addie (Bellbird) 3 August 1991: Rebecca Gibney (All Together Now) 3 August 1996: Melissa George and Corey Glaister (Home And Away) 3 August 2002: Georgie Parker (All Saints) 3 August 2002: Claudia Karvan and Samuel Johnson (The Secret Life …

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On This Day — 16 July

16 July 1977: Ross Higgins, Noeline Brown, Kevin Golsby (The Naked Vicar Show) 16 July 1977: Graham Kennedy (Blankety Blanks) 16 July 2005: Big Brother 16 July 1956: Melbourne’s HSV7 commences its first test transmissions ahead of its official launch in November. The test transmissions, which include test patterns and short documentary films, are set …

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On This Day — 5 July

5 July 1975: Skyhooks 5 July 2003: Sibylla Budd and Dan Spielman (The Secret Life Of Us) 5 July 1964: The 1957 film Heaven Knows Mr Allison is broadcast on GTV9, Melbourne. Starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum, the film went on to become the decade’s highest rating movie screening — attracting a rating of 59 …

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A Tale of Two Magazines

In 2002 the biggest battle in the TV landscape wasn’t on screen but was based around duelling TV magazines. For over 20 years, TV Week had a national monopoly on the market, published by Southdown Press (later Pacific Publications) on behalf of a joint venture between it and Australian Consolidated Press (ACP). This arrangement was …

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Obituary: Alan Hopgood

Alan Hopgood, veteran actor and playwright, has died from cancer at the age of 87. Born in Tasmania, Hopgood made his TV acting debut in 1957, starring in the ABC play Sound Of Thunder. He went on to appear in a number of one-off plays for television including Tragedy In A Temporary Town, Antony And …

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